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Hey guys!

I've been producing for a while on headphones and I want to make the jump to monitors (my school has monitors and they make a huuuge difference in how much producing I can do at one time, and they just make the whole process so much more enjoyable). The problem is that I live in an apartment. The walls are pretty thick (its a rather old building i think) but I'm still scared that I'm going to get noise complaints left and right. How do you deal with this? Am I crazy?

Just dont play anything too loud

eenzo wrote:Hey guys!

I've been producing for a while on headphones and I want to make the jump to monitors (my school has monitors and they make a huuuge difference in how much producing I can do at one time, and they just make the whole process so much more enjoyable). The problem is that I live in an apartment. The walls are pretty thick (its a rather old building i think) but I'm still scared that I'm going to get noise complaints left and right. How do you deal with this? Am I crazy?

no ask next door if they mind and or what an appropriate time is. theres nothing worst than producing at low levels, it just dosnt work. use headphones late at night

I'd say you need at least 75 - 80dB going for proper monitoring.
Try to learn the room's acoustics. I guess they could be decent for monitoring, but that's not very likely.

If the walls are pretty thick as you say they are, it shouldn't be that big of a problem. Now, I don't have any monitors, however, my mom is a pretty huge fan of cracking the volume up to it's max while partying late at night with nothing but elderly people living around us. And, our walls are paper thin, I can even hear my neighbour listening to some choir shit early every morning.